My favorite part in The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn was when Sherburn scolded the crowd for being cowards. Although Sherburn himself suffered from moral confusion, he brought up a fact that most people did not have courage to challenge wrongdoings alone.
After Boggs was killed by Sherburn, the crowd went to Sherburn’s house and tried to lynch him. Ironically, Sherburn believed people’s behaviors were ludicrous and absurd. He criticized other’s violent act, but he did not realize that he had done something immoral. Sherburn did not held clear moral standard; therefore, he could not distinguish between right and wrong.
On the other hand, Sherburn points out that most people did not have the courage to face dangers and troubles; the only reason that they had to stand up and face it was because people wanted to hide their cowardice. People just drifted with the steam and did the thing the most people believed was right in order to earn acceptance from others. By contrast, Huck was the bravest man in the novel who stood up and did things that against the morality standard hold by the society.
